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UK Visa Portal spilled thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies online — and hasn’t fixed the leak

·Source: DataBreaches.net

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Executive Summary

Zack Whittaker reports: A website called UK Visa Portal is publicly exposing the passports and selfie photos of applicants who signed up and paid the site to obtain a U.K immigration visa, TechCrunch has learned. An anonymous person notified TechCrunch about the security lapse, saying that the website is exposing at least 100,000 documents from... Source

Analysis

Zack Whittaker reports: A website called UK Visa Portal is publicly exposing the passports and selfie photos of applicants who signed up and paid the site to obtain a U.K immigration visa, TechCrunch has learned. An anonymous person notified TechCrunch about the security lapse, saying that the website is exposing at least 100,000 documents from... Source
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Originally published by DataBreaches.net on May 27, 2026.

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